Abaco has been described as 'futuristic', which is always an ambiguous adjective: on the one hand it sounds like a compliment, on the other hand it seems to prelude a tomorrow that may never come. How did you work to create an innovative system that, at the same time, would find favour with the public?
"I have been working in this field for 40 years, first as a plumbing designer, then as an interpreter and realiser of tailor-made bathrooms alongside architects and interior designers. For almost 20 years I have transferred this experience to the world of sanitary fittings, trying to combine design, technology and innovation in the best possible way. How to definitively solve the issue of bathroom design as a space where beauty is balanced with functionality has always been my worry. To include sanitary ware within a harmonious, single-material, clean, essential and above all functional composition: this is what I set out to achieve with Abaco. A futuristic project aimed at becoming the evolution and at the same time the revolution of the bathroom: a container of experience, technology and innovation. Abaco is a modular system, simple and linear, which puts things in order and reorganises functions and plant technology within a single volume, furnishing the bathroom with every single function: washing, toileting, storage. I have to say that I did not expect all the success this product had when it was presented. Today it is already in great demand all over the world. It seems that Abaco has encountered no cultural limits: Italy, a futuristic country with a vocation for design, despite the bidet's tradition, is among the countries that are most in demand and I can only be proud and honoured".